An Emirates A380 aircraft gets ready to land on the runway at Pearson International Airport on Monday, June 1, 2009. Pearson airport plans to cap the number of flights into and out of Canada's largest air hub at peak travel times.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Toronto Pearson International Airport plans to cap the number of flights into and out of Canada’s largest air hub at peak travel times this year.
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority says it will impose a “hard limit” on how many commercial planes arrive at and depart from Pearson at any given hour during March break and the summer season.
It will also put a ceiling on the number of passengers that can arrive from abroad or depart to the U.S. within a given 60-minute period.
The airports authority has not specified what the caps will be.
The new constraints aim to tamp down traffic at peak hours following a surge in demand over the spring and summer as well as the winter holidays that erupted in travel chaos last year.
The turmoil included scenes of overflowing baggage halls, stranded passengers, tens of thousands of flight cancellations and Pearson ranking as the worst major airport in the world for delays in July by tracking site FlightAware.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 28, 2023.
